WEAVER, Claude, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Gainesville, Cooke County,
Tex., March 19, 1867; attended the public schools; was graduated from the law
department of the University of Texas at Austin in 1887; was admitted to the
bar the same year and practiced in Gainesville, Tex., 1887-1895; assistant
prosecuting attorney of Cooke County, Tex., in 1892; moved to Pauls Valley,
Indian Territory, in 1895 and engaged in the practice of law; moved to Oklahoma
City, Okla., in 1902; member of Oklahoma City Board of Freeholders in 1910;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3,
1915); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914 and for election to fill
a vacancy in the Sixty-sixth Congress in 1919; postmaster of Oklahoma City,
Okla., 1915-1923; acting county attorney of Oklahoma County in 1926; legal
adviser and secretary to the Governor, William H. Murray, 1931-1934; district
judge of thirteenth Oklahoma district in 1934 and 1935; returned to the
practice of law; died in Oklahoma City, Okla., May 19, 1954; interment in
Fairlawn Cemetery.